Department of Broadcasting

DEPARTMENT OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AND BROADCASTING

Dr Oyinkepreye Brisibe

The Current Head of Department

CINEMATOGRAPHY AND BROADCASTING

Film making isn’t just an art, It is an artistic, scientific and technical weaving together of narratives with aesthetic skills, craft and technique that allows the viewer to not only feel, but also to be moved emotionally. This we strive to bring about in the Department of Cinematography and Broadcasting (CBS).

In the Department of Cinematography and Broadcasting, we combine the skills of our professional cinematographers and broadcast experts to give our students the required training need to emerge the best in the industry. The Department of Cinematography and Broadcasting is relatively new in Rivers State University having been created from the Department of Mass Communication. The Department boasts of Professors, Readers and Senior lecturers skilled in Cinematography and Broadcasting who are focused on producing the next generation of Cinematographers and Broadcasters with the skill to communicate through aesthetic, well-horned crafts, and artistic methodology.

The Department of CBS offers students a wide range of production opportunities through the University’s radio and TV (EXCEL Radio & TV) studios. These Radio and TV studios offer hands-on production experience for students studying to build careers in Film, Cinematography and Broadcasting.

Profile of the Head Of Department

Dr Oyinkepreye Brisibe has been a lecturer in the Rivers State University since 2015 in the then Department of Mass Communication until it was unbundled in 2021. Currently, he lectures in the Department of Cinematography and Broadcast Studies at both undergraduate and Post-graduate levels. His career in the media started as a newspaper cartoonist for the South South Express newspaper in as far back as 2002 before its closure, he was also involved in editing, writing and illustrations for gospel magazines before acquiring a Bsc degree in journalism in the Russian Peoples Friendship University Moscow via the Bayelsa State Scholarship Board. He has been involved in Graphic novel publications and sequential art researches after an Msc degree in Film Studies and Visual culture from the Coventry University in the United Kingdom. He has participated in feature films and documentary and broadcast productions in Russia, the U.K and also in Nigeria, including organizing film festivals and visual cultural exhibitions. He served as a consultant for the establishment of media production studios for film, photography, TV/Radio broadcast and advertising in various states in the Niger-delta region. His research works spans across film transmediation and evolution, Sequential art publications in Nigeria to mention but a few. He is a member of the Film Educators Guild of Nigeria (FEGON).

Staff list in the Department

Name | Rank | Area Of Specialisation | Email Dr. Dike Harcourt Whyte (HoD Ag) | Senior Lecturer | Virtual and Organisational Communication | Prof. Godwin Bassey Okon | Reader | Communication for Development | Dr. Stella C. Enyinda | Lecturer II | Film, Broadcasting and Gender studies | Brisibe Oyinkepreye | Lecturer I | Film Studies and Visual Culture | Chris-Biriowu Belema Theresa | Assistant Lecturer | Film Studies, Feminist Communication Studies and Digital Communication Studies |

STRUCTURE OF THE UNIT

+CINEMATOGRAPHY

+ DOCUMENTARY

+ EDITING

+ TELEVISION & RADIO BROADCASTING

+ FILM DIRECTING

+ PRODUCTION

+ SCRIPTWRITING

+ STILL PHOTOGRAPHY

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRAMMES

To respond to the growing needs of a dynamic industry by designing, developing and sustaining a scholarly framework aimed at enriching the intellectual, structural and ethical base of film production, cinematography and Broadcasting media practice within global parameters for excellence and creativity.

OBJECTIVE

The Department of Cinematography and Broadcasting Studies prepares students to participate favourably amongst professionals in moving pictures. Through courses that are tailored to teach students Cinematography and Broadcasting and their relation to culture, history, technology and film aesthetics. The basic objectives of the department are:

• Provide formal and cognate education with a view to equipping students with requisite skills for practice in the area of Cinematography, Film and Broadcast Studies.
• Provide and engage in qualitative research in the field of Cinematography and Broadcasting with a view to enhancing professionalism in Cinematography and Broadcasting.
• Provide complementary consultancy geared towards capacity building with a view to positioning the Nigerian movie and broadcast industry within the framework of global dynamics.
• Position students to understand the relationship between film form and aesthetic effect through both film analysis and the creation of motion pictures.